Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-08-27

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From the Philsdsiphis American
The German Protestsnts Of the Americas
ooloaieo formed q considerable body q ID,
ums OF he Rsvolutioa, but most Of thsi
stsoogsA w 10 PsnnaylvaaiA IL The ars
half Of ths sevsotesuth century, the stream
Of German misratioa, = u poured Into thii
eolooy, waD alike cause Of concern 70 tht
olhos Peunaylyania elemeutA and the occa
sion a sarpsiss saA wosdsr 70 svsryoas whs
viewed n hon Wishoas No such movement
nor aaything approachisg H. hsd before bssG
soon IN America To most os the colonies
Immigration he'd bssn comparatively SLOW {
lev hundreds seemed . large accession
But INN Pennsylvauia there came, In The
eummoe OF l740. twelve Thousand 0srmeua,
md In tho autumn OF that yeaf nino thou
eand more arrived.
Many Of thses Germans were of the Peace
oec0-the nennonitss, the Duukers and the
beeweok ielders; others were Calviniaas, the
"0er0en Reformed" }" - then called-but .
larger number were of the chief church Of
Protestant Germany, thas which Luther had
himself osgentssds and which owned - ~
~ blndine ~ the Coo iession Of faith f0rmu-
q these bad arrived before l742, but In that
year there came the man who 10 now regarded
= the father Of the Lutheran church In
America Henry Melclsotr Auhlsnberg hsd
neca born In I'LL, q Etmbeck, In Hanover,
md afles studying q Goetinseo--whares -
The univogsity wss sslabltshed In l7a5, be
We one Of the very nrst masrtculatss-
peeced 70 Halle, and taught there for time
e ne famous "Orphsn House." founded BY
Herman Augustus Frsncka He had come
IN coutsc,, = bis biographsr says, with the
spirit and form OF pisty originally represented
~ Philip Jscob spencer, and hsd become
nxsd i0f lie 10 II, hia devotion to the strict
usagse and formulas Of the Lutheran
THE Halle Pietism" throughout his careoF.
10 bepeember, 7Al, ho had consented 70 the
pfoPoAitiou that be shOuld 20 - Q missionary
70 the ohurchesin Psnnsyivania and In juno
weeks In London (in oompsnionsbip with
ZsSSeuhssen, the .'couFt preacher" nom
l722 % l778 Of the Gsrnau Lutheran chapel
which Prince George OF Denmark, consort OF
America IL hsd been arranged that he
enoui0 h!ss visit, IN Georgia, the settlement
OF " "6alEburger" Lutherans, at Ebeneser,
nsar Savannah, ana h0 therefore took ship
70 Charleston. landing there On the 2sd Of
he came North . few week. later, end reached
Phtladeiphia 90 the 2,h 0S N0vomDos.
From this tune until the day Of his death.
Oceober 7, l7s7, Muhisnbsrg IVES engaged In
labortng among the German Luthersns Of
Esstsrn Psnnsy lvania. and in sining and en-.
o0ureeing The congregations OF New Jersey,
New York Gin New York city and ON the
Audson) Asrylsad and Virginia He had
accspteo, " the oeatnning, call ~ the pse-
toeoto at three ChurChes-shoee OF Phtladel-
phis, Providence ana New Hanover. The
later two are nov In Montgomery county,
which was organized from Phtlsdelphts In
1854. All Of them In l742 were weak and
AWn> a. A. A.
German Lutherans, twenty i've years before,
some congregations had been formed, hut
there was - yet neither orderly arrange.
ment nor competsnt pastors. In Philsdei.
phis tho CONGREGATION gathered In butcher
Ministers engaged here and thsrs, - chance
occurred, who were In many casse not lit for
their offce either by abilities, education, or
bshavior. Add 70 this that tho Morsvisn IN.
that many Of them were inclined 70 sOospt
the leadssship OF Zinssudorf, who, for . year
he'd bsso ia Psanayivenis, soswsraiug this
thsse several difiicuities--ths poverty and
weakness OF the Lutheran congregations, the
disorders caused BY illegitimat0 pastors, the
distrnCtlou OF tho Morsvian tendency. the
opposition Of Zinxendorf snd OF those who
had been in the Leadership Of the Lutherans
that MuhloDbeSR had 70 contend. Fortu-
natoiy for him, he was we'll equipped for
his work. His natural abilities we're good
--ho WoD noe p' 0oCn6r, ana won hN way
wherever tho people heard his sermons.
His training and education Were good he
could speak In English - we'll - German,
and oven, after little preparation, In Dutch.
He waa loyalty supported by the Halle
authorities, and BY ZeRenhagen, In London,
and resolved from both sources valuable ad
In money and suppiisA Moreover, he had
patience aud good common sense, the chief
qualities needed for the work he had In
hand. In short tme he had sufmounted
the greatest obstacles and was recognized on
sil hands - tho head Of the Lutheran
churches In the American colonies. He a..
tablishod local schools, which were greatly
needed, and began new church buildings ut
Philadelphia and Trsppe. 10 far in the In.
terror - TulpehockeD, In what 10 now Berks
county Established in 1857, he laid six
months after hts arrival the corner stone OF .
church, Christ's, Whose successor, built in
l785 Q, has In this summer OF 1887 been de-
stroyed by nre from lightning. IL WIS there,
at Tulpehocken, that ho made the scquaint.
anoe OF Conrad Weiser, one OF the most re-
markable characters In early Ponnsylvania
history, whose daughter he subsequently
married, an alliance OF value u him IN many
wsya The Wslaers were OF that Palatinate
Immigration, which, having Loft Rhine In
1903, came u Now YORK under percussion OF
Governor Hunter, and settled tirst on the
Hudson, at Rhinebeck and elsewhere, but
which removed later 70 the Mohawk In
Schoharie county, and aftcrward came In
large part 70 PennsylvsniA